Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 21, 1925—PART 5. i{?cord_Crowds Awaited in U. S. ParksEsputa and Sousa Closely Associated Courses in Nature Study to Be Added Feature This BY WILLIAM S, 1TH ODLIN, the f iy Nati of opening Yellow Park, the virtually every < na tuval playarounds apart the Government is welcoming the childre of all aces. Before snow flies in thi part of the country less thay 2,000,000 men, women o zird according conseryative imate will have enjoyed wholesome, health ful holidays amid 1 scenes of out door zrandeur nnsurpasoed any on the For the present seasor promises to cee all records for tourist travel to the national parks shattered cept for the limited number that afford the t anired by long this hoon is not the East. Circumstances creed that with the single exception | of the diminutive Lafa eite Park on| The coast of Maine. a!l o the national | parks shall be located in the far West, Hawaii and Alaska | Steps to overcome this preponder ence of favor, which without desizn operates azainst the pecpl The Fast, are heinz 1aken. The Govern ment is keenly alive to the risht of the East possession of national parks and the of Con aress authorized ation of a commission of five o gate the availability sites for national 1 monopoly of =uch Tay hoys where can 1o mone however, the population of have de journs: < for last the exper investi ee astern West's the they dhkinz comparati 1d he e ereated. Ge e national oniradist In the much npiicated. Al (v hich n fety. for & funda the oidan: of hai is already to parky in e ownership. This makes neces the condemmation and purch the Government of such are not by privaie all land w tional park svstem prineipal ary mental Anplicatins he found prival exclu. son national is by are indi JT was at the urgent request of Sec retary of the Interior Hubert Worl hat Congress has voted investization af the possibilities cast sissippi. particularly in the ans. He particularly stndy of that pari of th Mountains of Virginia the south fork of the Shenandowh River and between Froni Royal or the north and Wavrnesboro on th south. to be known as the Shenandoah National Park. and that part th Smoky Mountains Iving on the horde: between North Caroling and Ten nessee., he known the Smoky Mountains Natlonal Park. The bill #s passed. however, added the moth Cave of Kentucky. which. it i inderstood. will soon be ihrown on the wmarket, after about a century of wivate ownership. for priv pur chase unless (he Governme: anires it Until of ihe )it Appalach recommended Klue Ridge Iving east of the establishment these additior spite of the fact th trolled from ane » the ch & its entir eration is co offices the southe Eighteenth and I Washingtonians for have content themselves with a lonsdistance view of the pleasures I'nele Sam provides with lavish h n great West. Bui it is ture worth viewing even in manner. The history which are tivnal Park of the director streets northwest the most part will nd the i this of the national park administered by the Na Service of the Department Interior, Stephen 'I. Mather. dates back almost 4 ceniury 10 the establishment of the Hot Springs Reservation in central Arkansas in 1832, But it was 40 vears later, in 1872, before another. <reat Yellowsione, was created. It was at this time that there was coined in Congress the historic phrase. “for the henefit and enjoyment of the people And to u zreafer degree thin ever ore this slozan represents the «nd nnderlving value of the par One hy one new national pa dded the chain until 19, covering miles. or does this include parks adiminisiered partment. 30 “nati covering a million National Park Service zoal square the military War Dé monnme wres. under tional ente, coverin o0 Departmen I u few ve s total of th. ks and monuments scareel 100,000 For the rially folks 2 mother s Automobile journey 1 Tus ey h Tha ’ vich he Play th of the the bhezinnin have the focal national Fm\_\v points for parks been Year, Providing Expert Assistance for Motor Tourists, Still Increasing in Number inz than unendin; re o1 re it or mi per Erounds and ity the 1 But number Sreater The sripped ihe mon It S0 the nier Iding ne anit tour ep than any « vast i were noted Uncle Summer nnpree cities has by visitors 1 Parl nied hote maj their Vrenor ver he 11 Sam bou a with last th en of 1 h and 211 vhe rd this Nationa -n 1 camp it ryane ity own milies of them. provided which r top, t lution return the tourists are provided der tream life in tl 1y emi-ho minal fee. th red nishe tion is 1 ave Liundrie this stid ke and lecture a from been inte the 1 for their part. i s courses in naiure iade important practical extension the highway 1d pro: parks by shower b hting e the Z up reati they part Aread: thet 1) system. ram_and rapidly Natl vear is a Acti the paras s re for it w hich m could only read Yellow ht nd has rder o lme throuszh univers he nt ) could end 1 Park vepar S an and Irouds carr 1od: of park pr visitors ar whole ind dream the spening, enter the ene foreizn nowr 1 his out on his country early inz Service w the in- mld come, trails, prnding for play prosper apvarent that in from con at on et long mands to well ready automobile and thev tel rang ison, d protected rest from T service modern 1 some camps there <en places and even elec ate. h nstalled on the mal ure st ihe nd this v i of the Conzress propriated $7,500,600 for the Already standpoint pirk-co-park has 1 three-vear | e work Al Par of onviction he educational servige has zuides the . These zuides rk emite there taiilities < from the are fo Yellow moun pol Wood 30 cents at canita hot in some of the 0.000 the far all ap to the GATE, YFILOWSTONE NATION for tha ke hin more imy Wes L T lowstone Canadian Nautional next Al the line Glacier west, the Swinginz enconntered is Mount is nature | schers The compen thi iud whao tield fr cach d Dleasurable far Field ni forward, an pro SCALING THE TOPMOST ROCK OF PINNACLE PEAK. RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. PARADISE VALLEY LIES BELOW. n Al PARK el ity Lint pa 1 faced in 1th. the National Hizh well conditione ind is in many parts the Old ninz on the way is supporte Phota by EI Tovar Studio KAIBAB BRIDGE. ON KAIBAB TRAIL. COLORADO RIVER. GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK. National Park, in the State of Washington. Then comes Crater Lake, in Orezon. Southward the trail {lea and hefore the lenzth of Cali fornia has heen traversed have Lassen Voleanie, Yosemite, Gen Grant and Sequoia National Parks. Makin nzie at Los An | geles and turning east there is to bhe | visited in Arizona the Grand Canyon sa Verde and Rock: Mountain |in Colorado and then. if not Rainier seen eral onehea " PRESTON WRIGHT. ILHETA KREJCT. choi muaster of the cathedral at | Bruenn. in Moravia, for | merly 2 state of the Aus i trian Empirc. but now a | part of the Czechoslovak Repuh | knew a good vaice when he heard it | Krejei also was sinc teacher in [ the parish sehocl. Year in and vear out thousands of vouthrul voices had been lified in his but in al | his memory none had e ed in him | the delight that this one did With traininz he kaev would de | velop into a Ivric sor quality. And he with all the care o would give ne | blossom. “Maria | “hereafter vou of the cathedral The cirl was overwhelmed larly when she learned that <he v I be assizned to solos, Tall for her 11 ! vears, she had the shiness that ofien besets zirls whose height distin Presence est Jeritza.® Ay Ve to sinz in the cholr he said one as partien hizhwav. The n highway, reports is receiving # larze percentaze of the road improvement heinz earried on in the West. The Midland trail i rying hordes of tonrists from the Cen le that < exe in popu the Linc n and Victory, the for eross.continental north. the Yellaw <plendidly marked, and Trails ocean-to-oce Pikes ak tral States, but it improba larit central arteries Further trail leritza home, evoked great discussion. “van Jeritza was determined that no uzhter of hers should be subjected the temptations of the theater. Anton Jeritza felt otherwise. but he held his Maria awakened future and to char wisely As for her ambitions She dreamed of besought her mind had heen rosy she her mather | guishes them from their friends—a | | Shyness that was accentuated by her | modesty. It trail she never | was to lose, even though, in the ves ! to follow, she was to face repeatedl ibrilliant and sophisticated audiences |all over the world. It did not seem to her that could bear the scrutiny of the sreat assemblages in the cathedral. Never | theless she complied with Prof. | Krejci's wishes, a marked figure | whose blonde beauty moved her listeners almost as much as did the note from her slender throat. The distinction that had {her had varying effects upon her {parents. Anton Jeritza. her father, | himself musical, was delighted. But | her mother was a bit skeptical. par- ticularly when it was found that the choir master was entertaining un usual dreams in her dauzhter’s behalf. “Maria,” he had told the girl, “you have a great voice—a voice that some day will he worthy of opera. If I could but train it This remark, come to repeated In the she | “THE LESSONS WENT ON, WIT! THE PROCEEDINGS.” Rambler Gives Some Stories of Their Con tributions to Washington Music and Recalls the Home of the Esputas in Early Davys. ; HE name of John Esputa came \ | to the Rambler's mind thel { moment he thought of writ- i | inz of musicians of old Wash- | ington. 1t =eems too familiar p i [to write the name withoui the prefix [ professor. for nearlv all Washington | people of the time | am thinking of spoke of John Esputa as Prof. Esputa. Forty-three vears have sone since he died, and persons i« whom the Ram bler has gone some facls in this i story wentl of him as the - | professc The mbles hius had diverse in formation when John imute and his faiher Francis came to Wash ington. but 1he date muy as 1843 or hafore | District [the date be set down | A ‘record in the Health show el 2 the certifi et Satnen his death 188 and written on cate of death ithat he | old. had lived in Washington 35 vears. | and died ai 714 Ninth strest east. In The Livening St | February 27, 1852, wus this: | John Esbuta. at one thne leadar of the | Marine Band, died Saturday night at { his residenc n Fast Washington, aged | '45 years. He - d been ill for u long | {time. [le wae (he founder of puta | ! Musie iHall on the Navy Yard. The| i funeral service took plice this after. noon at St. Alorsinsg Church and w attended by a lirge concourse of the i friends of the fumily, after wihich the | remains were taken to Mount Olivet Cemetery for incerment.” | Francisco wa. hi Spaniard. served se fonr or more Navy, and a1t m 'ORGE FRANCIS ESPUTA. A SON OF PROF. JOHN ESPUTA. retary the Navy. William Tavlor. Purser,” The discharge in 1345 indi cates that he enlfsted in 1841, and the | time between that and his discha 1ro the Constitution, in 18 is not ac ntad for, though he heen in the Na PParhay relatin The s duied | bler could seiile (he m Lranuars and him hon-! =pond ith the Na orable dis om 1 < Shi i att that Constitn: o disch he Daper i dated John M. Hamble 1832 0% he not show that v & in the <hin's ha ference. 10 the lwas four s Constitutior ihw—-y in the American but the bit of fads of i the oldesi | hive seen i The d paper is dated N ember 11, 845 Tt osar s This is te certify 1h I puta. Leader Hand. is rezular! harged from the 17. S. Ship Oht from the nava United 2ther. a <o nent Lands of re four paners the 0 n ave | | the Ram b o him tie 0, 1828 Denariment Me third wrolina. b v 1 and 1. Per diseina The tha m. purser, and doe d. but is the fn-{ o Cahoo enlistment joined the ma e Nuvy hefore paper I tell arm er, in. sizned 1) in 1831 tell vou Wa char hea dquarier reh 20,185 he d Espiuta “is now 2 five feel five biu eves and black n sSpain.” The d i Samuel A. H. Ma i if 1 vesd the hieh wa not i ears 1 the ink is faded [ HAVE 4 discharze certin hows that John Espiuta listed in the Corps of Marines at head quarters. Washington, February o 1844: that he was then about 15 - ears old: that he hud lzht hair. light com plexion and was born in Spain. An other discharze paper, dated July 1% 1858, shows that John Espiuta. musi ian. enlisted in the ) July F the gevser| 1553, “‘beinz then aboui 7 years aland. | lace.” He was probably in the Marine he world betwesn his discharge in 184 enlistment in 1833, but th not before r he death 155 that Jehn Es had been a4 resident of Washing vears. That would carrv the back to 1347, vet he enlisied in the Marine Corps in 1844, Francis Espiuta’s vears from his discharge from the ship Constitution in 1838, a»d his enlistment on the ship Ohio. probably in 1541, have not heen accounted for. and the Rambler 1re that in 1538 he came 1o Wa ton with his wife and his have been told thai John Esputa wa . Possess| brought to Washinzion when he of its own. |8 vears old. and sx he rs when he died 1882 horn in 1520 or 1931, and v vears old when his father | Constitution and di~appears records that are hefore me. I could probably clear up this matter by luok ing into the Washinzton dir-ctories of the late 30s and earl: 40s and by run ninz an eve throuzh the land record index. If there is demand that this be | done, it be thai when Francis Espiuta came to Washington he built a <mall frame house on B street southeast be een Seventh und Eighth and on tha Wiere that house stood houses. Nos. 717 und built and ouned by ancis Lsputa. son of Prof ia =nd grandson of Franc piuta You . S i sars that | ot sixt inches hair und wa harge neis axe ! sdgned arlica of the tes by order of the Honorabls = in 68 other hizhwa full quots of t S that are carrying their rists are the Nationa! | Parks. the «u Rattlefield. the Black and Yellow. and the Theodore Roosevelt Interna fonal In the ional scenic wonders which. if found ut lin any other t of the world unsurpassed in sublimity and b | There are mare geyvsers of larxe size in Yellg instance, than i all the rest of world put togethe the nearest approach be | elds of Teelind New | Azain, it is conceded that, | over, there no valley on the zlobe so strikingiv beautiful as the Yosem ite, with its comnarison-defying water fall, and nowhere else can there be found such stupendon size and the Grand Can In | the Sequois i to be ter te which parks there are an e nes is on on of the Colorade. National Purk there : oldest living things earth. trees that were old when Fo | was younz and o huge that none in the world even comnare with then [T i o sirikin from ta o s time een th fels cha istie ¢ o <on John. 1| different as it were Mount extinet which Crater 4 pereonality - Rainier. for vale de flow not less Lake, Oreg.. wvas he suld Jeft the m the nstance the an n th fills with !of astonishing blue the hole lait the top of Moun: Mazama. another volcano of the chain of which Lalnier 1S a pari. was swallowed up within ftself in the fur recesses of time. The Yosemite National Park California. in addition to the Yosemite Valley and erfalls. has in the north a rive ed the Tuolmnne, which spouts wheels of water more than -0 feet in the air. 1t also has youn s snow-capped throughout ihe the Sequoia National iurk ave hun oy dreds of trees more than 10 feet in di- | . ameter. with several from 5 ta 36 thick at the base. ilacier National | was created when | eons azo, one | overlapping the several thousand [ than 0 “glaciers | lakes. On immer Yellowstone, s besides its zevsers which build sl highly colored has a canvon colors of tha rainbow. With {herds of el wnd . bears und countless smaller animale, all pro tected from the bullets of the hunte it is MHterally the greatest wnimal| sanctuary in the world | Mesa Verde Park, in Colorado, hides deep-cut_canvons the well preserved ruins of a civilization which Dassed out of existence so many cen turies ago that not even tradition re. | calls its people, the manner of whoss | lives can only be surmised ! in cele Tofty Tot o Dri yric Park. in Monta the earth cracked thrusting up and oiher. It has el feer hizh and 1 feed hundreds Aoats jcebergs have no glaswes several times cause of the spelling of Sonetimes vou have seen it and other times have quoted from { have followed the =nelling found there. | The name was Espiuta. A good mans ears before his death and while iror, buta had his music school on Eighth street he needed a sizgn fo repl | which had long been there, sons seemed have nouncing and writing profeysor told the nar doubt wiped vour blinked be- Esputa. Lspiuta sputa.” Where 1 official papers 1 nd lake is well known man istening mineral deposits sorgeous with ull wce one Some per o Trouble pro Sspiuta. and the En-painter o spell After thai he sizn veceinis and checks “John i form of name sse Eputs il Snd fix puta becume | AFTER writing that parazeanh of speculation to when Francis Diuta came to Washington the Itam <'¢:| S conscience—laugh. vou cyni ebuked him. He fel: that he should Choir Chief Discovered Maria Jeritza insur- | would | ‘Oh. mother,” she exclaimed. “per- ville. T don" ant 1 n va 4 haps T could become « great singer.” | sl i Your” saia Frau deritza. . Na. no| AU (hiS poin there was—putting it, vou are too shy! The first time vou | Whimsicallv—something of an faced an audience vou would run /rection in the household e | Maria Jeritza could not easily aban- “No." vepeaied the mother. and she don her newly awakened hopes. \More. #dded: *If vou did nor have a great over. she had the support of her voice, then you would fall into vaude. |father. They decided she should have ! her voice trained. il | Bt although he had discovered her Rreat l:fl»e"'. and encouraged her to| | velop it, Wilhelm Krejei could not ' |array himself in open opposition to U] [Frau Jeritze. He refused to train the T girl's voice without her mother's con I sent. | | This was a disappointment. but there were other teachers of voice in | Bruenn. One was the well known| Prof. Sigmund Auspitzer. He gave| Maria a hearing. immediately prediet ed a great future for her and took her | as his pupil. The lessons went on with her moth er ignorant of the proccedings. “Come, Maria Anton Jeritza say. let’s go for a walk.” | Off they would saunter, easily. as if without a goal. But when they | were out of sight they hastened to Prof. Auspitzer's studio. “There is no need to anger your| mother,” Herr Jeritza would say. Soon the time arrived when Auspit- zer was certain that Maria Jeritza was capable of getting an operatic engage. ment. However, he and the girl's {father were in a dilemma. They feared | that her shyness would overcome her |if she went before an impressario for la test hearing. But ‘an idea came to them. Prof. Auspitzer arranged for Leopold | Schmidt, manager of the opera at Ol muetz, to come to Bruenn. One day, while her teacher put Maria through |ner paces, Schmidt. all unknown to her, sat in the next room and listened. | He immediately engaged her to sing |the “Elsa"” of “'Lohengrin.” | Her mother no longer could offer | any objection. Maria Jeritza set forth on the path that led her to world wide fame. Gepyright, 1078.) H HER MOTHER IGNORANT OF | machine | Rambler | had ! with Prof. Esputa | Prof. Esputa | was many sizes too large for a small have determined 1n of theorizing on that intellizent readers would lay down the “Poor workmanship—ha conld the recorder's office and find when 1 piuta hought that properts in less than write that parazraph.” - Fearing that readers of good Sens i have it-—would think the T shivk. he laid down his 1 v 10 the offt The tine readinz old hooks wis 1 writers. when thes are not paid for the do @ job. Nome are paid for ber of words n £iVInZ any information ther mutter. Goin of deeds” office did not tion. Besinning with tickinz to the job, T the first reference to Frone in 1849, Between his cominz inzton and his purcha Tenth street lived in o rented house The Rambler would leive writing machine once more and the Public Library to look for Franeis Espiuta in old directories, bui this i Saturdzy aft and the librar probably closed. Also, 1 want this story off my mind row, Sunday. I can the woods without Kinz whizz! 1 e not finished thiat itn bler stuff vet and wiil b early Monday mornin through ih the que it. and tion in=ie yonsht | wa pretend 1o appetite at which vs_ followed ments Elizabeth hunzry ved The Rambler ing tuken time—you zolf. He Tatinz 1o e card he my punishment fe ' ind the supper entertai paper Tuahle playinz hezs pardon of time might 0 o have beer but a - D e ’ 1 hi re puta taken on the trip and ched the thi ich I tien would st three hours, | pass wh trans Slaimed he will nest pice a they « withont have noon is Zo on a pienic in hi “Gee s his tuff = matie e Knight N of Washinzt 10 the THE WIFE OF PROY. ESPUTA < JOHN nd paid” ihe grant. Mcinights nd sell, ed / Digging Up Stored Heat. Espiuta n JaXPE Vashin v orn 1o the dated ninetecn and twenty i idin vilezes editaments The deed i< 7 the suf Tistic ements. rizhis, pr h. nzing permaner As a in ed Lurone h chunks of he 1 poter The drei No chiners Peat has important uses other that of a fuel. However. { times « i PROF. FROM TONE. JOHN AN ESPUTA. OLD-TIME DRAWN HALF. mak epest impression. Peat iron smeitinz. mar others of the metal indu: cithout a pee important machiners that th coke Factnre the Peace T. - <ell on wvas the but her Ch name anyhow. not appear. 1 and findi hat it nth stre v Lot 0 is Tenth Donne that M and B 1] e 1. ram. her nz K MeK MeKnigh Laptismai irl name. ¢ 1 the plat hooks No. 830 one by G, L Ninth uthesst, and Marin road: Geor stian Some evelopments or wes | cellent ar nious mechanical e deposits. befor trivances to ¢ ces | The hizh nd [ the W the | the employment of i Lar of G and is houndee praciic prohibite i ets s ur It of the raw t peat hoz operator with the mechanical Iv. peat excavati “ally appeared of these he sur first e i dizgi The compete 10 have did. Aecordir machines the Espiia home Washing market nd De twaen Se THE firs Eizhth t vill scendanis relics of that and the ramily Philin = venth sutheast looked un for Prof. Espu lixtle n tradition i< that Prof. Es Plaved Jments and zay hor : he raw nd whind <ide the peat vated from 11 later laid o the m nsa tin struction the violin Philip's decided hould « music the his Tohn Vhine Py the th When father 1dy hed pr that John fini can be got f he neizhbor 1921. th or the It mar small it raw of put of th tent friend In Anzusr, of John Philip was a4 paze story and was printed The Star. thoush not as « ramble. A few parazraphs from it will fit this story. and thev follow “When John Sousa was of aze he went to the Wallach and was a brizht little bov in arith metic, history and geogranhy. He had music lessons at his home on the southeast corner of Seventh and 1 treets southeast under his father and made some progress on the trombone. which was the instrument his father played in the Marine Band. John be zan taking lessons on the vielin when he was a small boy. under Prof. John Esputa, the Lsputa family living in | the large house at the southwest cor ner of Eighth and E. one square from the Sousa home. “The man writing this believes that John Esputa. fine musician and fine man. had a hetter acquaintance with John Philip Sousa than anybody else He knew more of the real inside John than John's own people knew As all the Sousa boys came alons. Antonio. father. taught them to plav band instruments, but John's progress | are removed 1o the chipping with the violin was his father’s spe. | where they are placed on edge cial solicitude and a matter of pride | tn back. with the coated surfaces out (ward. This room is heated by ste | eoils and when the heat is tu the glue attains its utmost degree of | desiccation and curls off the zi | pieces of from the size of a dime 10 | that of a silver dollar. but it adheres concerts was for the entertainment losely to the slass that. in of the people at the Government!effort to zet free, it rs pieces off Hospital for the Insane. John was |the surface, formins a Dbeautiful pat 1o g0 over with the professor in that | tern biz black carriage called the Bloom. | indale.’” John said he had no clean shirt, and in after vears told this story * ‘The five the Eeputa & Per dependent in its natnral state For industral purposes peat fuel ¢ he readily ed in quantity the <ufficientls dry beinz . 1o m to ton rote nh t peat fuel hour the school « almost a School provided bhelow Ker the n price ¢ Making Chipped Glass. HEETS shell \ Ploved for screens, of zlase covered with ike raised pattern are en electric lizht fix This fhres i ped ss really chipped aut volves a process that The sheet of glass placed under zive it a lis next tr £o0d glne a drving r zoms hours purposes chip of the surface is interesting o be treated je in order tr sround surface vith a solution the zlacs is placed where it remai Next the sheets of £ reated = room back “John was violin and was practice, but he zot along that Prof. Esputa had him concerts the 60s not a marvel on not industrious the in so well play in in One of these Known by Their Sparks. has been shown that the spark T |1 rays made by the incandescent particles thrown off from iron and steel when put upon an emery wheel |afford a means of testing the com | position of the metals. Carbon steels ! manganese steels and steels contain ing tunzeten and nickel each give 2 characteristic spark of different | and colors easily distinguish excuse proved futile, for made me o upstairs and put on one of his shirts, which boy. The collar had to be fastened at the back with a pin, and I was ahout as uncomfortable a youngster as vou could find when 1 stepped on the platform to play. 1 hed not finished more than the introduction | forms of my solo when that collar became |able. unfastened and began to climh over| The form of the spark picture the back of mv head. The agony !changes with the quantity of carbon of this, coupled with the thought of | Fiven so slizht a difference as .01 per the audience I was facing, made me |cent of carbon can be detected in this forget every note of my solo and I|manner. Pointed, branching lines de began to improvise to cover up this | note carbon steel. ool steel shows the lapse of memory. and I could hear |appearance of “blossom the my master hurling imprecations at | branches, fungsten red me under his bhreath as he struzgled streaked < and Doints, at the piano to vamp an accompani- | with little halls thrown of the ment to myv improvising. Finally l“mrnu'x'vr'. and an explosion appear. broke down entirelv and fled from |ance in the articulation denotes the the stage. My master followed and {presence of molybdenum, vanadiune Wased in my ears: “Don’t you dare or titanium. on